| Rand Paul: Big Brother Really Is Watching Us When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon’s client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded: “In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother . . . but when you actually look at the details, I think we’ve struck the right balance.” How many records did the NSA seize from Verizon? Hundreds of millions. We are now learning about more potential mass data collections by the government from other communications and online companies. These are the “details,” and few Americans consider this approach “balanced,” though many rightly consider it Orwellian. Read More |
| Meet the little nobody from Texas with big power at EPA He dropped out of nowhere and landed with a crash in the director’s seat of the Office of Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency. Matthew S. Tejada, 33, Texas-born Latino, Ph.D. (History, Oxford University, 2006) and five years as a community organizer (like the young Barack Obama), was appointed director by former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in January. Read More |
| Blackout: MSM shifts focus from IRS Scandal The Big Three – ABC, CBS, and NBC — have essentially stopped covering the I.R.S. and their bullying of conservatives. Despite the fair coverage in the first weeks of the scandal, reports are now nearly non-existent. If it weren’t for ABC’s comment on Tuesday, the I.R.S. scandal would’ve been officially blacked out by the mainstream media. Read More |
| IRS targeting goes back decades, houses of worship have been main targets The big news recently has been that the IRS has targeted hundreds of organizations for audits, refusal of non-profit status, and other bureaucratic ordeals simply because of what they say. People are outraged that the IRS, which is supposed to enforce the law in an evenhanded way, is actually pursuing political goals. Read More |
| President Obama got by with a little help from his friends at DOJ, IRS, MSM and now even the NSA? As America gets assaulted with one scandal after another surrounding the Obama administration, there is speculation more is to come….And that speculation adds fuel to a bonfire of suspicion that this administration would stop at nothing to win its’ re-election. The 2012 presidential election was really not decided on a national level, it was always about who could take the edge in the deciding 9 swing/battleground states. Read More |
| The Breakdown of America A nation’s health and prosperity depends on good institutions. These institutions are political and private. Good political institutions include balanced government with a significant amount of popular control, the rule of law, freedom from corruption, and respect for individual rights. Good private sector institutions include free and open markets and positive moral codes in religious and private life. Read More |
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